Outdoor Skillshare STOP Mining at Bradley

The Outdoor Skillshare // 26th February to 1st March // Dipton, County Durham

Shut Your Coal Hole warmly invites you to join us in beautiful rural County Durham for a few days of skill sharing and workshops about outdoor life and resistance techniques to protect this area from a new opencast coal mine. From mass catering to foraging wild foods, from land defence to climbing trees and everything between; come and learn new skills, meet new people including locals residents and share your experiences with others.

Banks Group thinks that it is going to start the first new coal mine in the UK since the government started talking about phasing-out coal at Bradley this spring. We’ve almost run out of options to stop this mine other than direct action.

Planning permission was given to the now liquidated UK Coal in June 2015. This means that Banks Group has until the 3rd June this year to start mining at Bradley and then 27 months to extract 550,000 tonnes of coal.

We’ll be joined by experienced activists from the Hambacher forest occupation, international coal campaigners and the successful Coal Action Scotland campaigns.

This skillshare will be a safe, inclusive and participatory environment for learning new, interesting and transferable skills and is open to people of all abilities and experiences. Beds available at the accommodation and inside and outside activities. The skillshare will be a creative melting pot of ideas and techniques to sustain life and resist oppression (however it manifests itself).

Check the website coalaction.org.uk or check out our twitter to receive updates as they happen and feel free to contact us with any suggestions/requirements/questions you may have.

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